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On the great, momentous, stupendous day of the dinner, my beloved female / reader may imagine that Fitzroy Timmins was sent about his business at / an early hour in the morning, while the women began to make preparations / to receive their guests. "There will be no need of your going to / Fubsby's," Mrs. Gashleigh said to him, with a look that drove him out / of doors. "Everything that we require has been ordered THERE! You will / please to be back here at six o'clock, and not sooner: and I presume you / will acquiesce in my arrangements about the WINE?"
"O yes, mamma," said the prostrate son-in-law.